Chapter 164 Prepare the warship

It's just that one of the two large splint boats was broken because one of the mast was broken at that time, and there is no ready-made mast material on Nanri Island, so after the repair, it will be sent to the Freshwater City Boat House, choose a large material, make a mast, and load it on the ship to completely recover.

The repair work here was completed. After the docking was launched, the ship was immediately sent to the freshwater city boathouse, which had already selected wood for the ship and prepared the mast in advance. As soon as the ship arrived, it began to install the mast on the boat.

Through this large-scale renovation of the two ships, the ship also obtained the first-hand construction data of the Galen ship, conducted a thorough measurement of the two ships, and made a Spanish sailor who knew how to draw maps to help the ship draw detailed structure drawings and line diagrams of the two ships, and calibrate the data. .

In this way, the sea wolf's boathouse has gained a certain ability to imitate this Galen ship. Next, Yu Xiaotian is going to build an imitation Galen boat on the other side of the freshwater boathouse to exercise his boatmen's ability to build this Western galley.

As for the sailors operating the two boats, they started before they were repaired.

Now they have enough Spanish sailors, which could have fully met his needs for operating two large sailboats, but how could Yu Xiaotian safely hand over the two ships to these Spaniards for operation, so their job is only to teach the skills of operating these two boats to the naval water of the sea wolf. Hands.

The biggest difficulty in operating this Western-style galley is not the steering problem. Now both ships have been transformed into a steering wheel operating mechanism, but the Spaniards no longer know how to do it. The main problem is how to operate the sail.

The Western-style sailboat sail is very complicated, and the operation is much more complicated than the Chinese hard sail. The skill requirements for sailors are also very high. Sailors have to climb to the mast and walk back and forth on the mast against strong winds and waves and even strong winds. When operating the truss sails, they accidentally fall down and fall into meatloaf. Even if they fall into the sea, big Under the strong wind and waves, there is no chance to rescue them, so they don't have the courage to do such a thing at all.

Seawolves lack experience in the operation of this kind of galley, let alone professional sailors in this field, so they must rely on these Spaniards to help train crew sailors.

The sea wolf's original training ship could not carry out such training work, and both boats were repaired in the dock, the mast was removed, and it was also impossible to carry out training.

However, Yu Xiaotian also wanted to put the two boats into use before the officers and the Dutch fleet came to attack Nanri Island in October.

So Yu Xiaotian simply ordered to build a simulated mast according to the mast of the two ships in the Tamsui City naval training camp, and hang a full set of sails to simulate training sailors there.

This is to solve the problem of the training of sailors. As for the source of sailors, the sailors of each navy ship will sign up by themselves, and then select a group of sailors with good physical strength, courage and strong balance ability, and send them to the freshwater naval training camp for training and eliminate a batch. A batch of reserves is just enough.

Another good news is that the Spanish sailboat in Chicken Cage Bay sank in shallow water. After several failed attempts of the sea wolf's investment in great manpower and material resources, it finally successfully floated and dragged it to the shore, starting the simple After the leak-blocking repair, it will be temporarily moved to Chicken Cage Bay for preliminary maintenance, and will be sent to Nanri Island for overhaul before the end of the year.

After floating, naval personnel have carefully inspected the ship. The main structure of the ship was not damaged, mainly due to bad luck. The position of the water line was continuously hit by several near-arrow bullets of the sea wolf. Several near-fire bullets first landed on the sea, bounced up and continued to fly forward, hitting the position of the ship's water line and the hull There are several big holes in the waterline.

And the ship was running for its life. There was no time to plug the leak. In order to break out of the encirclement, it made a large amount of maneuvers. As a result, a large amount of sea water poured into the hull from these holes. When they wanted to repair it, it was too late, so they had to rush to the beach and sink in the shallow water area. As a result, the sea wolf was cheap.

The preliminary inspection concluded that the ship is still valuable for maintenance. According to the captives, the ship's age is only two years, which can be said to be in the youth of the ship, and the erosion in the sea is not serious. After all, the time is relatively short and the water depth is not large, so there is no more serious damage.

So if this ship is also repaired, the sea wolf now has three large splint boats, and it is difficult not to dominate the Chinese sea.

As for the artillery originally loaded on these ships, Yu Xiaotian has already seen it. He really doesn't like these Spanish-cast guns. Although they are also excellent, the tolerance is much greater than that of the cannons cast by the sea wolf, and the weight is relatively large, which looks very clumsy.

Although these guns also used four-wheel gun racks, (the Spaniards mostly used two-wheel land guns on the ships of the previous Armada, which was very troublesome to operate. It turned out that they planned to unload the ship's cannons to the shore for the offensive army after attacking the British islands. As a result, in the naval battle However, the speed of fire and accuracy have been greatly affected, and the operation is also very inconvenient. It occupies a large area on the deck of the ship. In addition, the number of sailors who professionally operate artillery on the ship is insufficient, which is also the reason for the final defeat of the Spaniards.) However, these artillery still seem too stupid, so the number of artillery equipment on the whole ship is affected. The impact also affects the center of gravity of the ship, making it a little high.

Therefore, after carefully inspecting these Spanish naval guns, Yu Xiaotian finally decided to replace all the naval guns on these two ships with sea wolf's own naval guns. In this way, if the weight of the naval guns remains unchanged, the weight of the projectile will exceed the Western warships of the same level in the unit time of fire delivery, even if it is maintained. The firepower output capacity will remain unchanged, and the weight will also be reduced.

The most important thing is that the inner diameter tolerance of the sea wolf self-made artillery is small, and the tolerance that the projectile can be manufactured is also smaller, so that the accuracy of the artillery can be improved and the supply is easy. There is no need to cast shells for these Spanish naval guns, which will reduce the logistics pressure a lot.

As for these Spanish naval guns, Yu Xiaotian will not be willing to smash them back into the furnace. In the future, he intends to sell this batch of naval guns in batches. A gun can earn thousands of silver. These dozens of guns can be exchanged for a large amount of silver to buy fine iron, at least enough for him to cast hundreds of cannons. The problem.

Therefore, during the repair period of these two ships, Yu Xiaotian ordered Keelung Fort to go all out for the two ships and began to cast 24 pound guns as the fire pillar of the two ships. At the same time, in order to improve the close firepower strength of the two ships, he ordered the Tamsui City cannon to be used as its casting. Build 32-pound Caron guns and test-make two 48-pound Caron guns at the same time, ready to be tested on these two Spanish galleys.

After the successful test, the 32-pound Karon gun has begun to be produced in small batches, equipped with flying fast ships and reinforced lucky boats. Some wide ships with strong hulls can also be equipped with two doors, but Yu Xiaotian feels that it is not enough. He feels that if he wants to make the sea wolf have an absolute firepower advantage at sea, it is very It is necessary to continue to develop larger-caliber cannons.

So immediately put forward the request to continue the trial production of the 48-pound Caron gun, and this 48-pound Caron gun can be temporarily used as a super heavy naval gun and equipped on individual ships. Now these two Spanish sailboats have become the first batch of trial-up target ships.

The 48-pound Karon cannon can project more than 40 catties at a time. Even if it is smashed, it can crush enemy ships. What's more, this kind of cannon can be equipped with explosive grenades, and a lot of gunpowder can be stuffed into the hollow shells, which is much more powerful than the howitzers used in the 12-pound gun and the 24-pound gun, and drive when necessary. Near the seaside, the shore bombardment can easily bombard the enemy on the beach head into scum.

It is used to deal with the official army's forts on the shore. First, it is suppressed with long-range fire with 24 pounds of guns, and then the 48-pound Caron gun is used to resist the close shelling. With the current official army's forts, it can't withstand such shelling at all.

Even the large Western plywood ship currently operating in Asia does not have such a caliber heavy cannon for the time being. As long as it is equipped, the sea wolf can basically run rampant along the coast of Asia for a long time in the future.

Under the supervision of Xiaotian, production plans have been formulated everywhere, and production has been made to go all out according to the demand. A new cannon has been continuously minted and equipped to the navy and army. Guns have also been continuously produced a batch of new wolf tooth rifles, equipped into the army, and the navy. The difference that accounts for most of the artillery share is that these new wolftooth rifles are basically equipped in the army.

This has finally made the army officers such as Li Dazui and Meng Fei psychologically balanced. They have always been greedy for those cannons that are constantly produced. They can only watch them constantly being equipped to the navy, while the army can only play tiger squat guns and small 12-pound mountain howitzers, at best. It is to control the shore guns in some of the forts, but this time when the sea wolf was adjusted, the shore guns were placed under the jurisdiction of the navy by Yu Xiaotian.

And the army basically had no heavy artillery, and even some of the soldiers in the original army were assigned to the navy with the shore artillery, which made the army feel quite unhappy.

However, as compensation, Yu Xiaotian promised the army that the wolf tooth rifle produced by guns in the future will be mainly supplied to the army, which made the army a little satisfied.

(I will keep my word in the cold wind. Starting from today, I will resume to two times a day. I will never break my promise! Today is the beginning of a new month. I hope you guys will raise your hands and leave your monthly tickets to me. Thank you on your knees! If there is an activity now, you might as well participate in it, which may be good! Ha ha! The cold wind has thanked you in advance!)