Chen Hua had never seen such a big wooden boat, 10 meters long, more than 3 meters wide, and 7 inches thick black-tailed boat in his mind was no longer a simple "concept" but turned into a real and verifiable object! Even though the latter had not yet been launched.

"Brother, look here. This big plywood ship has the keels already being laid..."

Zheng Zhiguan, who is in charge of the shipbuilding affairs, introduced it.

The wood used to make large plywood ships are all high-quality iron pear wood and teak wood stored in the shipyard.

Chen Hua was confused. Although he could compare Zheng Zhilong's memory, he really had no feeling about shipbuilding. However, he could also see that the shipyard was more of a kind of merchant ship called old gate ship, also known as "duck butt". Old gate ships with traditional Chinese hard sailing and streamlined Western hulls are faster than traditional Chinese ships, require less manpower than Western ships, and are easier to build and repair. Zheng Zhilong has many such "Chinese and Western mixed-race men".

As a pirate, the Zheng Group has a very clear understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of various hulls in the East and the West.

China's unique hard sail makes it very convenient to operate, so the number of sailors required is much less than that of Western ships equipped with soft sails, and it is more flexible in complex sea conditions. It uses a compartment design and has a much better sink resistance than that of Western ships. Moreover, because of the fewer ribs, it is extremely fast to build and has very low manufacturing costs. However, it also pays speed. At the cost of weakening of gun position and defense, it is certainly not suitable for use as a warship in the artillery era.

The representative of Western ships - large plywood ships, certainly have many defects, such as high cost, many sailors required, and poor sinking resistance, which is almost one and two sides of the Chinese sailing ship. It is unquestionable that the hull structure of Western ships is strong and can be equipped with a larger number of artillery on the ship without worrying about being shaken by the recoil of the artillery that is intensively opened.

However, although Zheng Zhilong had money and enough ship materials and boatmen to build and manipulate Western-style ships, he had to consider the Dutch's feelings earlier.

In addition, in China's territory, the Zheng Group has become the absolute overlord on the sea surface, and there is no other company to challenge them. Without the stimulation of external forces, the "vigilance" will naturally become lazy.

Although the Navy did not release Ma Nanshan and swords and guns into the warehouse, the manufacturing speed of the large plywood ship was undoubtedly slowed down.

Now, Chen Hua is going to restore the Ishii Shipyard to its "normal state". Therefore, the construction of the large plywood ship that did not exist in the planned situation has started.

Unfortunately, the limitations of the times and the lack of talents, Chen Hua really couldn't come up with a super warship that could take into account the advantages of Eastern and Western shipbuilding craftsmanship. Now he could only make the Garen ships vigorously, and he would continue to develop into Western sailing warships in the future.

After giving Zheng Zhiguan a good command, Chen Hua strode to the shooting range next door.

In the 21st century, he had never seen real guns and cannons several times. Even if the latter was just a smooth-bore front-loaded one! But they could all be fired, right?

"Baopao..." A series of gunfire sounded at the Anping City shooting range.

The shooting range is both near the sea, and next to the left is a shipyard that covers a considerable area. This is one of the most advanced shipyards in China with advanced technology. It is the European Galen ship that can be built.

Zheng Zhilong’s secret treasure - Shijing Shipyard! Or the same is true for Anping Shipyard.

As Zheng Zhilong's old nest, after years of operation, not only did the ship trade exchanges here, but many good things were also moved by Zheng Zhilong one by one, such as shipyards, guns and gunpowder factories.

This is the Zheng Group's war horses, swords, guns, bows and crossbows. Of course, you have to keep it at hand to rest.

The sound of gunfire comes from the turtle dove-footed gun. This is a large-caliber heavy musket with a style completely different from the bird gun and the Lumi gun. The gun is 5.5 feet long (about 31-32cm per foot), an inner diameter of 0.6 inches (about 19mm), and 1.3 taels of medicine, a lead weight of 1.5 to 1.6 taels (about 56 grams), and the big turtle dove gun has a larger bullet weight of 1.8 taels (68 grams), and its lethality is absolutely terrifying. Even if a cow is shot, it will be killed, not to mention the Eight Banners Tartars. No matter how thick the armor is, it will not be better than ordinary bird guns!

But the rate of fire is also very touching.

Even if the fixed-loaded paper-shell bullets have been quoted, two rounds seem to have reached the limit of these Anping City defenders in one minute. And this is still on the shooting range. If it is a battlefield or on a bumpy warship, it is impossible to maintain such speed.

However, the defenders of Anping City are definitely the "elite" of the Zheng Group!

Of course, Zheng Zhilong still has more capable people. For example, those black soldiers are the most professional musketeers, but they are much better than those people now. In the shooting range environment, three shots in a minute are not a problem. But is there another bird for this?

Chen Hua now leads more than 100,000 people, rather than just 300 black soldiers.

So, I don’t know if I don’t look at it, and I see it as expected.

Although Zheng Zhilong learned a lot of good things with Hongmao, such as pellet powder and fixed-loading paper bullets, and even flintlock rifles. He even equipped Anping defenders with a large number of turtledove-legged guns, the combat effectiveness of the Zheng army is so touching.

These people are not strong soldiers with strict military disciplines in the country. In recent years, they have been influenced by the style of "cultural and military play" in the entire Zheng group. Even though they are under Zheng Zhilong's nose, they are teams that Zheng Zhilong uses to fill their faces, they are just tight outside and loose inside, and they are just like people.

In a word, the mud cannot stick to the wall!

Now Chen Hua must focus on exploring the potential of "self" and truly implement his technical advantages.

"The fuse is changed to a flintlock, and the rate of fire is indeed further. It's very good. I just don't know how long it takes to transform all the turtledove-legged guns in Hyogo?" Chen Hua said to an old man beside him.

The latter is one of the craftsmen recruited for him. Now that the iron mold casting cannon team is still studying, Chen Hua has already started to rectify the muskets. He will not wait until the great Han Dynasty in the north arrives before starting to do this!

Moreover, this thing can move faster than the military workshop. The windmill can't be built from building to standing up in three or five days.

However, although it is difficult to fully survive in three or five days to build a brand new turtledove-footed gun, one can be transformed, or a batch, but it can be completed within three or five days.

The flintlock machine is not an object with a high technical content, and there are no ready-made flintlock guns in Anping City. It is so simple for those experienced masters to say that?

Half of the muskets fired on the shooting range in front of me are modified flintlock rifles!

"Return to the Grand Marshal, there are no less than two thousand turtledove-legged guns in the Hyogou in Anping City. If all of them are changed, it will take at least half a year."

This is not the ten guns and ten flintlock machines in the shooting range. If you gather a group of masters and get some iron everywhere, it will be a good idea, because the spring is existing. But if you upgrade more than two thousand turtledove-footed guns, the craftsmen used will be larger in scale. The difference in technology is a major key. In addition, spring steel is also a problem. It must be made of refined steel before it can be applied.

"And the damage inside is not a decimal."

Just the craftsmen of the times are super amazing and cannot achieve a 100% yield rate. What's more, it is possible that they are super ghosts?

A very ‘modern’ idea popped up in Chen Hua’s mind, and he smiled, “No matter how small it is, you need to be willing to give up.”

The gunshot stopped, and the difference in the rate of fire between the two sides was clear at a glance. Jiangtou was a person who had been in charge of Zheng Zhilong more than ten years ago. He had never experienced the war himself and could hear it all. He also agreed with Chen Hua's statement.

At this time, Chen Hua was a little dazed. He looked at the flintlock rifle in front of him, and something seemed to have appeared in his mind. He clearly felt the flash of inspiration, and he was sure that it had a certain connection with the flintlock rifle, but he couldn't remember the specific meaning.

"What the hell is it, what the hell is it?"

Chen Hua wanted to scratch his ears and faces, but outsiders' eyes were frowning and thoughtful.

Kenji Ono blinked his eyes, and looked at Chen Hua who was in deep thought and wanted to scratch his head. He didn't know what happened to his lord during this period, and he was always dazed suddenly.

Chen Hua wanted to smash his head at this time. This feeling of forgetting things was very uncomfortable, especially since he clearly felt that what he had forgotten was very important to him now. This feeling was uncomfortable!

"Lord..., the seaside fort..."

Kenji Ono reminded that today Chen Hua not only needs to look at the gun, but also at the cannon. Look at the performance of the gunners after the ammunition is fixed!

Kenji Ono's reminder made the anxious Chen Hua suddenly realize. Yes, the turret = artillery - artillery + flintlock rifle = flintlock cannon!

Flintlock cannon, flintlock cannon, he finally remembered what was the inspiration he had just flashed by.

The flintlock cannon is a smooth-bore flintlock cannon in front!

Just like the naval guns in the movie "The Battle of the Sea", they are fired with a cannon rope and a flintlock machine, instead of being fired with the flintline in "The Patriot".

It was really a relief for Kenji Ono's reminder, and it was also a relief for Chen Hua to inspect today, in addition to muskets and artillery.

Squeezing his excitement, Chen Hua recalled some plots he saw in the past time travel novel. It is said that this flintlock cannon is not suitable for the army, so the lobster soldiers have never used it.

Because it has a high incidence of ignition accidents!

On land, actual combat capabilities may not be improved.

On the sea, the sea of ​​rage is competing for the battle, and the warships are bumpy. In order to save time in battle, the small space near each gun position will be filled with gunpowder. If open flame is used, it is easy to ignite gunpowder, and the safety is obviously not high. Therefore, the navy is very suitable for using flintlock artillery.

Moreover, at sea, since the gunners have a difficult time to grasp the timing after aiming, using the fuse fire point, it takes time to go from ignition of the lead-in to firing faster, which is very fatal to warships shaking at sea. Because it is possible that you aim at the opponent, but because of the delay in launch and the shaking of the ship, you have missed the target by the time the shell is fired, and the flintlock will basically not.
Chapter completed!