Chapter 214 The Japanese warship is coming back

Facing the morning light, Du Dazhuang rushed into the Ryukyu shipyard, and there was a steaming food box on the co-pilot's seat next to him.

Following the road of the factory area, he soon came to the six docks. Today's six docks are already full of warships. In addition to the seriously damaged Courage here, another determination-class heavy patrol toughness has also returned here after completing the task and accepted the main gun. Replacement work.

As for the four empty docks next to them, they have now been filled with four captured Russian ships. Since the young master promised Long Guozhang that he could leave four capital ships, the Chesma, Sinop and the better Generals Naximov and Admiral Kernikov have been towed into the dock, saying that they would pick them up. Modified.

Du Dazhuang didn't understand the modified warship and didn't know how the young master would deal with these four warships. However, since the young lady came, the young master only accompanied her for two days, and was dragged into the shipyard by Tang Xiao and McKinson, who had already come to Ryukyu, so that he had to run to the young master while being responsible for the security work. Delivery of food.

Of course, it's not that the food in the canteen in the factory is not good, but that the three young grandmothers feel sorry for the young master and are embarrassed to come in person. They just hurt themselves and smell the fragrant chicken soup in the box. Du Dazhuang licked his tongue.

"Da Zhuang, send food to the young master again."

"What's delicious?"

"Wow, chicken soup."

After parking the car, people kept greeting him all the way, especially when there was no task. Every day when he had nothing to do, he had to see how his beloved warship had been changed. While greeting, he looked at the food box, with a joking smile on the corners of his mouth.

"Get out of here." Du Dazhuang kicked these noisy guys away, asked where the young master was at the moment, and walked to the platform where the Chesma was holding the food box.

Not seen for a few days, the superstructure of the huge Chesma has been demolished, the three main guns have been hollowed out, and even the chimneys have been dismantled. Even if he doesn't know how to build a ship, Du Dazhuang can see that this Russian battleship, which made Long Guozhang's eyes greedy, has become an empty shell.

The closer you get to the platform, you can see more and more boatmen dressed in uniform thick blue cloth clothes. Even if he doesn't care about it, he doesn't know this. He also knows that the Ryukyu Shipyard, which is now on the right track and starts at full speed, and other supporting facilities, already have a full 40,000 workers. They are divided into three shifts and start work at night.

When you walk under the platform, you will find that from time to time there are foreigners in the same overalls in and out of the warship, and each of them will always be followed by a few Chinese workers who look like apprentices.

Foreigners help Chinese man-made warships with apprentices. If this is placed elsewhere, I'm afraid it will cause onlookers, but it has long been common in Ryukyu and Hawaii.

Although these foreigners hold a much higher pay than the Chinese workers, the young master said that we have a weak foundation, and the technicians are indeed not as good as foreigners who have been playing with machines for many years. Therefore, in today, in the important factories under the control of the Pacific Army, foreign technicians still account for half, especially the kind of thing called machine tools, and most of them are He is a foreign technician.

But the young master is not stupid. He gives so much money to empty their skills, which does not force every foreign master to bring a few apprentices. If he doesn't want to, just get out of here.

Good treatment, good welfare, and the young master recently asked Tang Xiao to set up a reward system, saying that who has made an invention and innovation that can make him eye-catching, and immediately give money according to good or bad, which is absolutely unambiguous. Therefore, these foreign technicians from all over the world are now working hard for their lives. Even in Chile, I heard that after the training of shippers for the young master and the shipyard had no big business, they were jealous of the treatment here and more than 2,000 Chilean technicians joined the Ryukyu Shipyard at a time.

The young master said that with this kind of transmission, plus the method of opening a special school to explain the combination of Chinese and Western, in another three or five years, our manufacturing industry can attract a take-off!

"Hello, Misterdu."

"Hello, hello."

Seeing a familiar shipbuilder invited from France greeting himself in the Chinese language he had just learned, Du Dazhuang also hurriedly nodded and said hello to him, but his heart was happy, because behind him, he followed five newly graduated shipbuilding design students.

Soon, Du Dazhuang stepped on the Chesma deck as if it had been flattened, and saw that the young master was sitting with McKinson Tang Xiao and others, and even Long Guozhang was squeezed in the middle.

"Remov it."

"Do you still tear it down?!"

Before he could get close, he saw Long Guozhang, who was full of majestic beard, blushing and howling, and almost jumped down from the deck in a hurry.

"What happened? Can you make Commander Long in such a hurry? Seeing this, Du Dazhuang became curious and immediately approached a little.

"Why don't you take it apart? What if you think this broken ship is not heavy enough? Master Li stabbed his neck, and his fingers almost poked in Long Guozhang's face. The latter did not give in and continued to stop the young master's atrocities: "But this is armor. It's all been dismantled. What can I take to block the shells?"

"Nonsense, can't it be installed after disassembly?" Master Li gave out an idiotic look, and then ignored Commander Long, continued to mutter to McKinson, and then somehow suddenly got up and stamped the wooden deck fiercely, as if he was very dissatisfied.

Li Mo was really dissatisfied. He thought that the two captured battleships could be used for repair, but when the technicians of the early survey and survey reported, they immediately scolded the Russians!

It turned out that after surveying the captured Russian warships, McKinson and his colleagues with the design team found that the two Russian battleships could not be modified according to the requirements of the navy at all, because the structural strength of the Russian [***] ships was too poor to withstand the 305mm/L40 double assembly produced according to Italian technology. The powerful rear seat generated by artillery firing can not even install 254mm/L45 guns with a slightly smaller caliber. Unless the caliber of the 254mm gun is shortened to L40 times, it cannot be modified.

This is still one of them. Another headache is that although the displacement of the two Ekaterina II-class battleships is similar to that of the Arctic star, the tonnage utilization rate is very low, and the Russians are obviously cutting corners during construction. Many places still use wood materials, which is not suitable for continuing to be used as battleships. .

As for the so-called innovative unprotected lifting fort, it is as ridiculous as the Russians making a sea disk, so Master Li immediately frowned. Damn Russians, battleships also dare to cut corners. Isn't this a waste of joy?

What worries him more is that the other two heavy patrols are the same. Although the data on the surface are good and the armor is thick enough, after a deep understanding, it is found that the two ships of nearly 10,000 tons are not as good as the determination level, and they can only be regarded as two ocean-going attack ships with armor.

So how to modify the two battleships as soon as possible so that they can join the active service of the Pacific Army has become the biggest problem in front of Li Mo, and even surpasses the final negotiation in Shanghai.

"Battleships definitely can't do it. They can only be converted into armored cruisers, and they also need to perform major operations on the hull, strengthen the structural strength of the hull, increase the boiler and replace new power, otherwise the speed will not reach the cruiser standard," McKinson said his answer.

Li Mo nodded, which was similar to what he thought. There was no way to continue to use it as a battleship, but fortunately, the displacement of the four ships was enough, and the displacement of the smallest Admiral Nasimov was nearly 9,000 tons. You can indeed try to change it to a heavy patrol.

"Then just use an oil-fired boiler and a steam turbine." Long Guozhang made a noise on the side again. Li Mo quickly stared at him fiercely. Not to mention the cost of using oil boilers and steam turbines, it was not worth it for this old warship.

So he continued to ignore the naval commander and squatted on the ground again.

Fort armor must be changed. The thickness of more than 400 mm seems to be very strong, but it does not use surface hardening treatment, so it must be removed and changed to the most popular sideboard armor. The thickness is reduced to 220 mm, as long as it can resist 203 mm naval guns.

Reduce the thickness of the armor by half at once, so that the weight of the whole ship is suddenly greatly reduced. In addition, in order to improve the speed and reduce the logistics pressure, Li Mo still decided to use a combination of coal-fired boilers and three-expansion steam engines, but all of them were replaced with new models produced by Honolulu. At the same time, four boilers were added to expand the chimney to improve the air intake, so that the speed could reach 18 knots.

As for the original ugly superstructure, it should also be modified, raise the bridge according to the standards of the Pacific Army, expand the command tower, and try to make it look as simple as possible.

As for the firepower, it is the most difficult place to modify. Originally, Li Mo was also going to use the Italian double L40/305mm naval gun, but the rectic force problem is too big. Even if the hydraulic pipe retreat method is used, the wooden deck can't bear it at all, so it can only retreat to the second place. Honolulu imitation Italian L45/203mm naval gun.

But the problem is that even if the thick armor is reduced, the two Ekaterina II-class battleships can still reach 11,000 tons. It is too wasteful for such a huge hull to be equipped with two double turrets. However, according to the test, the too short hull and internal structure cannot be equipped with a carrier structure. After thinking hard, Li Mo decided to adopt the method of German-class pocket battleships in history, using the arrangement method of three-loaded front and rear main guns, one in the front and back hemispheres.

Tang Xiao frowned on the side. Although the triple-loading technology has been mastered by Honolulu, its core delay technology and the hydraulic retardant technology that greatly reduces weight have also been tested, all of this has not yet passed the final synthesis test, especially the new triple-loading 15 2 The naval gun has just been taken offline. At this time, it is necessary to use the Italian L45 203 naval gun to imitate the triple suit after getting all the information. Isn't it deliberately to torture him?

Tang Xiao quickly and gently proposed that he may not be able to catch up with the progress, but Master Li is full of confidence. He has seen the preliminary test results of the new 152mm naval gun. In fact, it is technically good. The disadvantage is that the power of the shell has not reached the standard, but this is mainly because of the shell problem, not the gun itself.

Ammunition is a big trouble. Li Mo is not an expert in this field, and he has not been exposed to it in his previous life, so he can only explore it by the Honolulu laboratory itself. Although the laboratory increases the quality of the projectiles, it can only increase the new type of longer and thinner bullet body, which can only be increased by less than 10%.

So he is at a loss on how to improve the efficiency of shell armor piercing, unless he can get high-density alloy steel immediately, but even if that thing is developed now, if it is used to produce shells, I'm afraid it will make him bankrupt immediately!

He can only fool Tang Xiao with some of the information he has seen in his previous life. Especially when Master Li mentioned installing a bullet cap on the armor-piercing bullet to improve the armor-piercing efficiency, Tang Xiao is even bigger than eight, and he puts a hat on the shell? What kind of technology is this?

Of course, Tang Xiao doesn't know whether it is about the bullet cap technology or that Master Li was inspired by an intelligence a few days ago. Please report that Nicholas II has decided to send Stepan Osipov Makalov to take over the position of commander of the Far East Fleet.

Few people know that the historical Russian general, Makarov, who died before he was killed by the Japanese mine, was still a naval scientist. He proposed to separate the ship into several watertight cabins and install a high-power drainage pump and drainage pipes on the ship, and equipped with special plugging pads to block it. The method of plug damage has now been hailed as a classic by the shipbuilding community of various countries, so Makarov was also called by the later Soviet Navy as the "the founder of the theory of ship berthing without sinking"

And he also invented the first kind of shell cap, known as the Makarov bullet cap, which can greatly improve the efficiency of armor-piercing bullets. However, Master Li has only heard of the name, but has never seen its design drawing, so he drew a sketch of the armor-piercing bullet to "guide" Tang Xiao.

However, when he thought that the mines arranged in Vladivostok had not yet opened, Master Li wanted to laugh evilly in his heart. Can Makarov avoid it this time?!

After solving the main gun, the secondary gun is much simpler. In addition to the shell of the stern of the ship, two L45 152mm double-loaded secondary guns are installed on the original rear bridge No. 2nd and No. 3 gun position. With eight 152mm shell guns on the side, there can also be six secondary guns when firing on one side as a cruiser. The ship is already very good.

Coupled with the Honolulu-style four-door double-mounted 37mm rapid-fire gun, the firepower has exceeded the standard of determination-level heavy patrol. However, in this way, the main gun management standard of the heavy patrol formation is different, so Li Mo simply took this opportunity to upgrade the original determination-level and the Arctic star, and the heavy patrol all The modified Italian 203mm gun with L45 caliber was used, and the battleship was replaced by the second batch of L40 305mm main gun purchased from Italy not long ago when the imitation of the 305mm gun was not completed.

In addition, the speed of the fleet has made Li Mo, who has been used to it in his previous life, very angry, so he took this opportunity to test the steam turbine, and by the way, he decided to replace all four light cruisers, including two Russian-made light cruisers, with fuel for the Jinghai class. And steam turbines, and also asking for the way for the full fuel of the future fleet.

Hearing that four heavy patrols were modified with a triple installation, the fleet was comprehensively upgraded to replace all the flagship guns, and the power was replaced by the light patrol. Long Guozhang's face was finally much better, because after the half-year modification plan was completed, the strike firepower of the Pacific Fleet would be greatly improved.

As Tang Xiao and McKinson nodded and recognized one after another, the modification plan that troubled Li Moduo was finally completed. Just as if no one was chewing in his joking eyes with love chicken soup, Chen Ping had already boarded the deck with a solemn face.

"Young master, it is said that the two battleships and two heavy patrols I ordered in the United States have started trial training today. We estimate that they will return to Japan in five months at most!" ......

(to be continued)