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Chapter 146 Battleship Trial! (seeking automatic subscription)

Chapter 146 Battleship Trial! (seeking automatic subscription)

With the direction given by Xiao Qi, those old craftsmen in the 'Da Song Foundry Bureau' immediately started researching and experimenting in the direction given above.

While the craftsmen in the casting bureau were busy with their work, new inventions and small breakthroughs gradually began to appear, which made Xiao Qi more determined to give direction and let these craftsmen work together.

At the shipyard, because Xiao Qi had complete blueprints, he had already re-converted the blueprints into the customary units of measurement used in the Song Dynasty, converted them into zhang, chi, and inch, and re-drawn new blueprints.

The retired officers of the Changsheng Battalion selected by him are kept and responsible for the construction of these warships.

Moreover, those high-level old shipbuilding craftsmen who signed the non-disclosure agreement, after learning the advantages of three-masted sailing ship construction, carried out the transformation and upgrading of the building ship.

After all, although the building ships of the Song Dynasty had been built well at this time, the three-masted sailing ships that appeared only a few hundred years later must have more advanced craftsmanship than the current building ships worth learning from.

After more than a year and nearly two years of construction of the first three-masted sailing ship, those shipbuilders not only became familiar with the construction process of the three-masted sailing ship, but also learned many new shipbuilding methods.

Seeing that the first three-masted sailboat has been painted and anti-corrosion for many times, it will be able to conduct its first sea trial in a few days.

Xiao Qi ordered that the shipyard began to build two warships at the same time, a huge building ship and a three-masted sailing ship at the same time.

Unable to help, Xiao Qi also distributed the blueprints of the new-style building ships designed by himself, which had been proposed and modified by countless old shipbuilding craftsmen, to all military ports that had already built shipyards, so that they could start construction at the same time.

It is said that the construction process of these large ships is more complicated and more difficult, although these large ships are much worse than the three-masted sailing ships in terms of sailing speed and flexibility.

However, building ships are more resistant to wind and waves, more stable, and have a huge transportation capacity at sea, making building ships absolutely the best choice for flagships, transport ships, and troop carriers in this era.

Xiao Qi began to make various preparations for the large fleet to go to sea. Communication between the armies was something Xiao Qi attached great importance to.

He summoned a large number of new sailors early on to train them in communication skills, and asked many old sailors to teach the new sailors the semaphore and horn communication skills.

Xiao Qi also told the veteran sailors about various situations and military orders that were not available in the navy, and asked them to study and formulate new semaphore and horn communication words as soon as possible.

Xiao Qi is so busy with these things that he has two brains, and now he doesn't even care about the excavation of the three mines and the newly built racecourse.

Fortunately, the people in charge of the mines and horse farms and the soldiers were all generals sent by the Changsheng Battalion. They were led by a small number of soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion and a large number of veterans of the Changsheng Battalion who had retired due to injuries.

When Xiao Qi appointed these people to manage the affairs there, he gave each step a charter for what to do.

These people absolutely carried out Xiao Qi's military orders to the letter. Those few mines and the newly built racecourse, even though Xiao Qi didn't care to intervene, still developed steadily according to the regulations formulated by Xiao Qi, and there was no trouble at all. No.

The first batch of nearly a thousand horses from the new racecourse were all war horses that were injured on the battlefield and could no longer fight. Although these wounded horses could no longer be used as war horses, they could still be used as stallions.

Xiao Qi also specially issued a secret order to the general in charge of the racecourse, asking him to quietly buy a large number of Tubo plateau warhorses, crossbreed with these northern warhorses, and cultivate new types of warhorses.

For such an order, the general began to implement it as soon as he arrived at the new racecourse. Now there are more than 100 mares pregnant with such foals.Presumably, it won't be long before the racecourse intends to produce crossbred ponies, and the new racehorse will definitely run around in the future with new breeds, the kind of horses that Marshal Xiao said have better endurance.

On this day, Xiao Qi received a report from the shipyard that the new warship had been launched, and the hundreds of soldiers who had been training in simulation for more than half a year had already boarded the ship and began to familiarize themselves with the daily operation of the actual ship.

Short-distance sailing exercises will be conducted in the near future.

Xiao Qi didn't have time to go there for the time being, but ordered the soldiers to send orders to the first captain he appointed, asking him to lead the soldiers to familiarize themselves with the operation of the ship as soon as possible, so that he can train new captains and teach new ocean-going sailors in the future.

After Xiao Qi's proposal, the gunpowder storage cabins of the newly built ships are all equipped with many strong wooden shelves that can be assembled and disassembled layer by layer.

These wooden shelves have thick bottoms and are fixed to the bottom of the cabin. Fifty small wooden barrels can be placed on each wooden shelf. Each cabin has five floors, and there are two such cabins in total.

The grooves on the wooden frame are exactly the thickness of the wooden barrels, which can firmly clamp the wooden barrels, and prevent these small wooden barrels from shaking and rolling violently even in the event of strong wind and waves.

These small wooden barrels are painted with tung oil inside and out to prevent moisture. Each small wooden barrel can hold thirty kilograms of gunpowder. There are also two smaller cabins for storing projectiles and medicine.

It can be said that Xiao Qi thought through all the things that he knew were not Tao before, and every time he thought of a problem that he couldn't solve, he called craftsmen to study it together, and finally solved all the things he was worried about.

For the current Xiao Qi, as long as he develops steadily, he must not act too hastily, and it will cause big problems in the end.

Now the development of his place has been ahead of the world for hundreds of years, and if there is a big accident in haste, it is not worth the loss.

After explaining to the dozen or so servants in the Foundry Bureau who were in charge of various tasks, and asked them to take care of their work carefully so that no accidents would occur, Xiao Qi left the capital city of Lin'an, and set off for the first port to be built, which he named Shanghai Port.

Here is the first three-masted sailboat that has been launched and has been drilled by the New Navy for more than ten days. This warship was named the Invincible-class Shanghai by Xiao Qi.

In the future, such three-masted sailing ships will be collectively called Invincible-class warships, and the names of the ships will be taken from the names of major cities.

Although Shanghai is still a small county, Xiao Qi named the ship Shanghai because it was built here.

Came to Matou to rest for a night, early the next morning, Xiao Qi was invited by Long Yongsheng, the captain of the first Invincible class warship he appointed, to board the Shanghai.

Xiao Qi appointed Long Yongsheng as the captain of the first three-masted sailing ship. There was also the deep-rooted idea that the Chinese people meant auspiciousness. The dragon was the overlord of the ocean, and Yongsheng needed no explanation.

When Xiao Qi saw Long Yongsheng's name on the candidate list, he was so happy that he chose him to be the captain of the first battleship.

Not long after the ship sailed, Long Yongsheng asked Xiao Qi to sit down in the cockpit and began to order the sailors to conduct various naval battle maneuvers. Of course, they only meant to make tactical moves.

First, because the soldiers are not very familiar with the new ship, and it would be unsightly to make the general marshal who came to inspect the ship feel seasick.

Fortunately, although Xiao Qi has never been out to sea once, but it is not known whether it is because of the kung fu given by the practice system or other reasons, he can adapt to almost all environments, whether on land or at sea, very quickly.

Xiao Qi was very satisfied when he saw that these naval forces, after Long Yongsheng issued orders one after another, controlled the big ship as smoothly as clouds and flowing water.

When the ship sailed near a small uninhabited island, Xiao Qi had a whim and ordered Long Yongsheng to command the ship, firing a volley from the left and right cannons at the fastest speed.

Long Yongsheng received the military order, and quickly ordered the sergeant in the gun bay below to load ammunition, aiming at a small uninhabited island in front of the target.

Then he ordered the helmsman to advance to forty feet outside the reef and start turning right, and at the same time ordered the gunner on the port side to prepare for a salvo.

Not long after, Xiao Qi felt the warship shaking accompanied by dozens of roars, and the thirty projectiles flying out from the port side all hit the island reef with a radius of about one mile.

Then the warship continued to turn right, and adjusted the starboard side to the side facing the island. Long Yongsheng ordered the warship to move diagonally, making up for the distance caused by the warship turning away from the island, and ordered the starboard side to fire again.

The warship trembled and roared again, and the thirty projectiles on the starboard side also hit the small island.

Although the goal is a bit big, even if other countries have powerful navies in this era, their ships are not two-thirds as large as the Shanghai, but Xiao Qi is still very happy.

He greatly appreciated the captain Long Yongsheng, and immediately ordered all the soldiers on the battleship to reward one tael of silver, Long Yongsheng 50 taels, and other officers at all levels ranging from 20 taels to five taels.

Everyone thanked Xiao Qi for the reward one after another, and Xiao Qi was no longer polite to these old subordinates.

Directly ordered Long Yongsheng to find a small island as soon as possible, and asked someone to draw a ten-foot-long and three-foot-high boat shape on it, and practice facing that place.

For every empty artillery drill five times, live ammunition is fired once, and you have to find a way to practice close to actual combat.

　Chapter 2 is here.

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