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Chapter 349 Iron Ship

After picking up Liuzi, Lan Bing kept issuing orders. Not far behind him, two sailors were all covered in blood. He shouted and ran to the deck, looking for someone who was still angry in the pile of corpses, and pulled them up to continue working.

Now is the most dangerous moment for the Charge. There are only 190 people in all staff, and less than 60 people can get up. It is rare to rely on these 60 injured navy troops to ensure that the Charge's speed remains unabated.

Lan Bing glanced at the speed and direction of the ship, rushed out of the command cabin, walked to the crossbow with the crossbow gun, adjusted the direction of the crossbow, picked up the wooden hammer, lit the tinder, and smashed it hard on the crossbow machine.

Three crossbow guns shot at the chasing enemy ship No. 3. The crossbow gun shot like a meteor, and it hit the enemy ship. By chance, a crossbow gun directly shot the powder barrel of the first gun of the ship.

"boom……"

With a loud bang, the O'Ren III ship was hit on the bow by a giant punch. The violent explosion caused the O'Ren warship to rise high, and countless sailors fell into the sea like dumplings.

Lan Bing fired all the remaining crossbows, regardless of the fact that they were filled with tinder oil, and these crossbows could not be recycled.

"Everyone except for the necessary personnel, come to save people." Lan Bingdou's tears kept falling, but he could not hear the crying, and there was only endless coldness in his tone.

As early as when she was listening to the story, Lan Bing knew that war was cruel, but no matter how smart she was, she still could not connect cruelty with reality.

This time, she felt it personally.

The effect of several modifications finally appeared. The charge was full of sails and wind, and it actually ran out of the 11th quarter highway, and in a blink of an eye the injured enemy ship was thrown out of the third chain.

The three warships separated by the Ao people were one of them, one of which was seriously injured, and the enemy ship No. 2, which was still chasing, were smoking constantly. The fire on the ship had been extinguished, but Yu Yan was still there, and he couldn't raise his speed. He could only watch the Charge riding...

"Bastard, idiot!" Lei Jun, the commander of the fleet, cursed angrily. The large fleet had sailed forward for more than ten miles. The lookout soldiers reported the entire battle process to the commander without any error, making him furious.

You know, although this fleet only has 350 warships, it is the essence of the Romon Islands Navy. All ships have selected the latest and largest ones and have been reinforced before the war.

Artillery is hard to get. Even in Austria, it is the most advanced combat power. Ordinary merchant ships can only be equipped with crossbows and catapults. Even warships usually only have two cannons on the head and tail of the ship.

And this fleet is all full, each warship has at least thirty-four artillery pieces, and the most are three decks and sixty-six artillery pieces.

The second-level battleship that just now was chasing out was a second-level battleship, each with thirty-four artillery. It actually fought against a small battleship in Da Chu. It actually caused such a result. Do you think he can't be angry?

In the past six months, the most detailed reconnaissance of the Romon Islands on the Great Chu was the two naval armies of the Great Chu. Not only were there not many warships, but their equipment and tactics were far behind the Austrians, and they even had poor fighting will. Especially the northern naval soldiers, the Austrians were despised at all. Compared with the Austrians, the Northern Navy of the Great Chu was amateur.

But such amateur navy attacked the vanguard fleet in a three-to-one situation.

If the battles are like this, I will be fucked and just run away. No matter how bad the Da Chu navy is, the total number of warships of other people is there, which is not much smaller than that of the Austrians.

Twenty miles from the sea near Chunjiang Prefecture, the Northern Navy Charge fired the first artillery between the Great Chu and the Ao people, sank, severely damaged one of the Ao people warships and one slightly injured.

This result, in the eyes of later generations, was simply incomprehensible. In the hundreds of naval battles, Da Chu was in a state of losing more than winning less. It was not until the ironclad ships appeared that the undefeated momentum of the Austrian navy was curbed.

This victory brought a lot of misinformation to Da Chu. Captain Lan Bing made too many wrong choices for his own benefit and sent back the extremely misleading results.

For Lan Bing, she did nothing wrong. It can even be said that she is a national hero, using iron and fire, blood and tears to effectively kill the Austrians.

At the same time, the information she brought back was not wrong, and no matter how she chose and achieved the battle at that time, there was no exaggeration at all. Unfortunately, she didn't know that whether it was the seemingly powerful southern naval army or the northern naval army at sunset and sunset, it was not the officers and soldiers on the grassroots warships, but the upper commanders.

When the Charge returned to the Northern Navy Base Camp and made a detailed report to Shangguan, Shangguan naturally believed that the Austrian warships were numerous but their strength was very weak.

Everyone knows the situation of the charge. Fishing is still enough, but it’s okay to fight. They have never fought and don’t know how to fight.

Even the Charge can achieve such results. It can be seen that the so-called power of the Austrians is blown out, with a large number of warships, but their strength is quite average. Compared with the results, the command of the squadron arbitrarily believes that the strength of the Austrians should be weaker than that of the large pirate regiment, and only has the strength of the medium-sized pirate regiment.

As for the weapons that were as loud as thunder and died when touched, they didn't care at all. They had checked the Charge and saw that there were several places on the side of the ship being smashed. Judging from the traces, the general of the squadron believed that it was a catapult, and this thing was not new.

Although the Northern Navy had a difficult life, the number of warships and personnel was only one-third of the list, but there were still trenchers and there were also a large number of beds and crossbows.

What are you waiting for? Killing Te Mom, your first achievement!

Less than six hours after the Charge returned to the military port, the Northern Navy gathered nearly 400 warships and rushed towards the Austrian Navy.

I won’t talk about the result. It’s far from enough to describe it as cruel. It was beaten to hundreds to zero. The fleet commander was killed in battle and the personnel lost nearly 10,000 people.

At the same time, the first dry ship tungsten in the Repulse Bay of the Shengong Temple in Nanzhang, Experiment No. 1 has been completed. This iron ship, which is only more than 20 meters long, has not been decorated, weapons, or purely naked ship.

With Zhang Tan's order, the dry ship's tungsten gate opened the gate and released water. Experiment No. 1, which took 31 and a half days to build, slowly floated up as the sea water entered the ship's tungsten, and gently rippled with the sea water.

Although I have accepted the incredible theory of Master Lei, when Xiaoman watched with his own eyes, the iron ship he participated in was actually floating up. How can you reason about this? Iron ship, do you understand? It’s all made of iron, can it float on the sea?

When the seawater was filled and closed, the boat stopped. Zhang Tan gave the order, dozens of ship workers bravely got on the boat, holding a small hammer in their hands, and knocking everywhere on the hull to find the problematic places.

The first time I used the casting method to cast a ship, there were naturally many problems. Although I checked it again and again in advance, there were still six leaks and more than a dozen places where the welding was not firm.

It doesn't matter, this is a question I've considered long ago. The molten iron has been prepared long ago. I'll send it to the ship to repair all the shortcomings and then hit it hard with a small hammer.

The little hammer is fine, so I change to the medium hammer and continue to knock. It is said that this is to prevent false welding. Everyone here is a ship craftsman, but it is the first time I heard of the word false welding. Fortunately, the principle is not difficult to understand, but it is not poured.

The middle hammer is followed by a sledgehammer. The 18-pound heavy hammer keeps hitting, and without allowing the hull to be deformed, it is the top priority, especially the connection points of each pouring.

The whole process was very meticulous and took three days to complete the first step of the ship survey.

Then he hung up the sail, drove out the dry ship tungsten, and pumped water from the dry ship tungsten, and prepared to start casting Experiment 2, an iron ship with a hull of 35 meters long.

Experiment No. 1 drove into the water wave ship tungsten three miles away at a turtle speed. What a broken name? In terms of the name, the boatman couldn't understand what it was used for.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand it. They are all old boatmen. You can understand it at a glance. This is used to test the performance of Experiment 1 waves.

The tungsten ship in the water wave experiment was like a dam, with one end being more than ten meters high. The tungsten ship had been filled with water. When Experiment 1 entered the tungsten ship, it was locked with iron chains and all the personnel got off the ship.

When the gate is opened and the water is released, the first wave is as high as five meters. This kind of wave looks quite scary for people living in the inland, but people who make a living at sea think this is normal.

As the saying goes, there is no wind on the sea, and a wave of five meters high can only be considered a middle wave. Fishermen will encounter waves over five meters in the end of the year, at least one-third of the time.

Experiment No. 1 is an iron ship, with a hull much heavier than a wooden ship. It rises and falls in the waves that are five meters high, and looks very relaxed.

Xiaoman nodded repeatedly. Although the iron ship was very bulky and extremely slow, it was needless to say that its strength was, no matter how poor it was, it was made of fine iron, and no matter how good the wood was, it could not compare to it.

The next one is a 10-meter wave. Experiment No. 1 will undergo seven days of wave test in this water wave ship. From morning to night, personnel will rotate the experiment. As long as the sea water is full, the gate will be opened to release the water.

On the third day, the hull found several inappropriate places and continued to pour. Before actually entering the sea, such experiments were indispensable. After all, it was an iron ship, and Renault was not sure about the pouring and welding method.

The original seven-day experiment was extended to ten days. After seven days, the ship workers felt that safety should be fine, so in the next three days, the empty ship water wave experiment turned into a manned water wave experiment, which not only increased the load, but also could detect the hull at any time. Some people even suggested that sailors could get on board and train while experimenting.

After more than half a month of experiments, Experiment No. 1 has achieved initial success, and at this time, the No. 2 experimental ship has completed most of the progress.

In fact, building an iron ship is really faster than building a wooden ship. The process from laying a keel to the end of completion is extremely complicated, while the iron ship is much simpler. First cast the hull, then pour and connect, and the operation is completed.
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